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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing overstay in Vietnam, so Vietnam Immigration issues. I will occasionally do a video about other countries here in the Southeast Asia region especially with respect to Immigration as it can have kind of a tangential impact on especially tourists coming through Southeast Asia or Thailand. Tourists really like to travel around this area. They love Thailand, they love to go to Cambodia, Laos, sometimes Myanmar, although right now probably not quite as advisable as it usually is. Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore maybe even after the Philippines or Indonesia. People like to kind of travel around this region, it is a great place to travel about.

It is a great region which kind of brings me back to the point, so yeah, we are talking about Vietnam, overstay in Vietnam. Let me be clear, we are not based in Vietnam; I am not in any way affiliated with Vietnam insofar as having done business there or anything, no none whatsoever. I am just hearing a lot of feedback back from folks either by email or they get in touch with me in other ways saying "Man we have had a lot of problems. We got stuck in overstay due to the pandemic situation and getting out is a real problem because we are heavily scrutinized and then getting back, can we get to another country? Do we have to go back to our home country?" Long story short I am not making this video to provide any insight on solutions. I have made another video contemporaneously with this one where we discuss Thailand and the intake of deportees which as I said in that video, it is not impossible that Thailand would take in the deportee, what I would call a third Country National deportee, so not a Thai citizen but somebody who has for example a Canadian passport, or an American passport or even a Mexican passport that gets deported from Vietnam, will Thailand take that person? It is hard to say. It is not a foregone conclusion that Thailand would allow that person to enter Thailand, but differing circumstances. We have assisted folks who have been deported from other countries in the past gain access and lawful status here in Thailand, it can happen. Every set of circumstances is going to be different but again the point of this video is now things are opening up, you are seeing a lot of folks who due to oftentimes I think situations beyond their control are stuck grappling with overstay issues in Vietnam.